The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 3
Once the Coyote came where Pee-oo-ée-deh, the little “cotton-tail” rabbit, sat at the door of his house, thinking.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: come, sit, think · To what, where: Pee ée deh, door
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 deh | advmod |
| 6 | Pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deh | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pee | punct |
| 8 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Pee | conj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ée | punct |
| 10 | ée | ée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deh | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ée | punct |
| 12 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rabbit | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rabbit | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rabbit | amod |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tail | punct |
| 17 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tail | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 cotton | punct |
| 19 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rabbit | compound |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tail | punct |
| 21 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deh | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sat | punct |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 door | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sat | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 door | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thinking | punct |
| 31 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sat | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Coyote | Pee ée deh and the little tail rabbit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the Coyote not said here | the door of Rabbit's house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | the Coyote not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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